Marlette is the editorial cartoonist for the Pensacola News Journal. He's at his first political national convention and in Tampa he expects to find a smorgasbord of ideas.

"This day in age, the political environment, there's never a shortage of material-I can't draw fast enough," says the 32-year-old, with round blue eyes that no doubt see things a bit differently than the rest of us.

And for this native Floridian, putting pen to paper is kind of a family tradition. His uncle, Doug Marlette, won a Pulitzer Prize for his cartoon commentary. And Andy put his talent to work at a young age.

"Oh yeah, I was the kid in class that could draw. At lunch, I traded chocolate milks for cartoons, that kind of stuff," Marlette acknowledges.

In just one hour at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, Marlette sketched a Romney idea for later in the week, a duded up delegate and his momentary meeting with political consultant Karl Rove, who had no time to pose for a cartoon.

"He was much too busy," says Marlette, sketching out the Rove encounter.

But you know, there's plenty more RNC and Marlette's pen is poised.

"I know," he says, quickly drawing from a seat high in the convention hall. "I can't wait to see what happens tomorrow."